It’s not normal to hear the words “don’t take any pictures until I turn on the blacklight” be taken seriously, but, seconds later, I was standing in front of a gigantic space station, lit up entirely by blacklight. Yes, strangely…
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Depeche MODA: “Atomic Fashion” at the Renaissance Society
by Alexander Shulan •
“Do you think I can wear this outside?” My roommate said to me at one point this year, pointing to an enormous hole in the seat of his beige cargo pants. “I mean … it’s not that big …” This…
Art Attack
by Alexander Shulan •
Friday, April 27, 1800 hours. Lumpen’s Art Army lined the banks of the Chicago River, set to begin the assault on the Merchandise Mart and “Artopolis.” “Fire!” shouted one of the legionaries of this Grand Art Armee and with a…
From New York to Chicago: What is a “city”?
by Alexander Shulan •
It wasn’t with great apprehension that I first arrived in Chicago, I was a city kid, I’d spent my whole life in New York, I figured I wouldn’t be too overwhelmed, but after my initial tour of Chicago, it didn’t…
Vive la Resistance! Ed Marszewski and the Lumpen art collective rally the troops for Version 2007
by Alexander Shulan •
“We’ll be dressing up as a Roman phalanx, we have a navy, we have the Jeffrey ballet, we are going to have a bunch of tall white kids as our cavalry, there’ll be fifty people pillow fighting, if we can…
Community Canvas: Checking in on a storied South Side arthouse
by Alexander Shulan •
Located in the center of Bronzeville, the South Side Community Art Center is noteworthy for both its legacy and the myriad events it supports there today. The oldest African-American art center in the country, it was founded in 1941 as…